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Our Biggest Resource Anybody who runs a company knows that you have to have a solid stream of candidates to fill open positions. Our people are our biggest resource and without our people, we wouldn’t have “Team Dasher.” We spend a lot of time identifying and hiring talent who can succeed in the organization while […]Read More

Tracking Our Outcomes For each business function occurring at Dasher, we have separate scorecards to track weekly performance of our processes, including finance, marketing, production, and contact center operations. The scorecard for the Team Member Prosperity and Success Model is shown here. Dasher tracks specific outcomes from each step of the Team Member Prosperity and […]Read More

Results May Vary! Actual results may vary! We developed the Team Member Prosperity and Success Model through trial and error over a ten-year period and we continue to enhance and modify it. It is a living document. Most people we talk to about the Team Member Prosperity and Success Model are focused on implementing the […]Read More

How We Started When we started down this path, we had what now turns out to have been a simplistic view. Our learning came in seeing what it is to live with the stress, the lack of a safety net, and the day-to-day crises that are part of the reality of economically fragile people. We […]Read More

Finding a Solution Dasher’s workforce includes many low-wage, economically fragile people. Ten years ago, we concluded that paying higher wages and offering comprehensive benefits to low-wage, economically fragile employees did not measurably improve employee retention or drastically improve quality of life. After searching in vain for a proven system that employers can use for helping […]Read More

Influences! Let’s all face the facts. The projects that we work on are going to be forgotten. The company we are building will probably one day be forgotten. The things we accomplish, the awards we receive, all this fades. What lasts is the influence that we have on people and the ways that we impact […]Read More

Gossiping is Kryptonite We wrote about The Dasher Way in a previous blog (How We Built the Dasher Culture, June 25, 2019). The Dasher Way is our shared set of norms, where everyone understands the rules the same way. This is the way we behave. It gives us a common language and a common way […]Read More

What is Social Determinants of Health? According to the World Health Organization, the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources at global, national, and local levels. The SDOH are mostly responsible for […]Read More

Building the Dasher Culture As a first step, we thought about employees at Dasher who personified our commitment to deliver a customer experience that makes working with Dasher attractive and productive for our clients. If we could identify an ideal employee or a group of ideal employees, who would they be? We thought of those […]Read More

How Is Dasher Different? At Dasher, much of our success in business is based on the theory that it is better to be different than it is to be better. What makes Dasher different is a deeply-rooted, measurable commitment to creating economic prosperity for all people. And here is the real competitive advantage: People want […]Read More